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Carter No.: 519f

Handlist description: Five glazed pottery shawabti figures

Card/Transcription No.: 519f


519, F.

5. white glazed pottery shawabti-figures, 17. cents. high, wearing the <> headdress, and beard; details in purplish brown glaze. Nothing in hands thus:

<> L. R.

The following inscription in purplish-brown glaze on front of figures:

<> var. <>

Note The white glaze of these figures is discoloured to a red-ochre hue - (?) due from over burning. Some are broken from crystals of salt.

Card no. 519f relating to Carter no. 519f
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